China Cultural Chronicles September 14, 2012
- Picturesque scenes of Chinese Sansha
Sansha is a prefecture-level city in the South China Sea under the jurisdiction of Hainan Province. Sansha city administers over 200 islets, sandbanks and reefs in Xisha, Zhongsha and Nansha islands, covering 13 square kilometers in island area and 2 million square kilometers of water.
- Tourists ask to cancel tours to Japan
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下载安装Flash播放器Some Chinese tourists are canceling tours to Japan after hearing news of the Japanese government "purchase" of Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea, two Shanghai travel agencies said yesterday.
"There are some local tourists who said they want to cancel their tours to Japan and some are consulting us out of safety concerns," Liu Xin, deputy general manager of the Shanghai China CYTS Outbound Travel Service Co Ltd, said.
Liu said the agency was waiting to see if there would be a notification from tourism authorities.
The Shanghai branch of the China International Travel Service also said they received some requests from local tourists about canceling their trips.
Last year, more than 100,000 tourists from Shanghai went to Japan on organized package holidays.
Meanwhile, two floats representing Japan will be absent from this year's parade on the opening night of the Shanghai Tourism Festival due to the Diaoyu Islands dispute, the city's tourism bureau said yesterday.
"It is not proper to organize the float parade because of the current political situation," Dao Shuming, the bureau's director, said at a press conference in response to a Japanese reporter's question about the influence of current Sino-Japanese ties on tourism.
The two floats, presented by the city of Osaka and Kagawa Prefecture, were due to parade around the city along with another 21 floats from Saturday, the opening day of the festival, to October 6, according to the bureau's original plan.
In another fallout from the dispute, the annual Shanghai marathon, due to take place in December, will no longer be using the name of a Japanese sponsor in its title, Shanghai Sports Bureau announced yesterday.
"The Japanese enterprise-titled Shanghai international marathon is no longer suitable to be launched because of the Japanese government's position on the Diaoyu Islands," the bureau said. "But as a famous sports event of Shanghai, the 2012 Shanghai International Marathon will be held on time and enrollment should be kicked off soon."
The marathon, formerly the Toray Shanghai International Marathon, has been held since 1996.
- Landscape of Zhari Namco Lake in Tibet
Visitor standing on the lakeshore takes photos of Zhari Namco Lake in Coque County, Ali Prefecture, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Sept. 11, 2012. Zhari Namco is the third largest saltwater lake in Tibet, covering an area of 1,023 square kilometers. [Liang Shubin/Xinhua]
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Faces brilliantly decorated, Yuen Long residents celebrate the annual Tin Hau Festival.
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- Bonzai Watercolor
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A little 5 x 7 bonzai tree watercolor on watercolor postcard.
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唐代官琴較大 豐滿圓潤
此琴造型較近宋琴 是否唐至德二年款可信 不敢斷言
但是以次厓先生的鑑賞能力 應該到手時也有幾百年歷史 非唐即宋應是合理
《易·系辭上》："紀而裁之，存乎變；推而行之，存乎通；神而明之，存乎其人。
林希元（1481—1565年），宇茂貞，號次崖，同安翔風裏山頭村人。少年脫穎苦讀，因家境貧寒，中秀才後到鳳山天興寺設塾授徒九年。明正德十一年（1516 年）中舉，次年聯捷進士。初授南京大理寺評事。http://wen20091111.blog.hexun.com.tw/48992613_d.html
登瀛 泉州地名 陳氏 宋代始
此琴製自唐肅宗至德二年，質堅如玉，練紋作牛毛梅華斷，撫之音韻清揚而遠，洵千年彝器也。本同安理學家次崖先生所藏，因遭兵燹，歸登瀛陳氏，傳五葉，予力購得之。夫石泐金寒，物久必弊，茲豈有神物護持，故得此不壞身耶？銘曰：如顯慶車存，如靈光殿峙，張此以和古松，共諧宮徵。咸豐癸丑中秋，銘於香石山房，占梅鶴珊氏并書。
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